From IBM’s Best Practice Makes Perfect Forum – a discussion of @Unique, what it really is, and its proper use.

For everyone trying to save energy, even companies, how can you best rein in energy costs – while doing your part to address global climate change? Can you be sure the power-saving strategies you’ve adopted are, in fact, the best ones? After all, there are plenty of myths out there about saving energy. In this report, InfoWorld examines 10 such myths.

Avalon Business Systems has added a compression management feature to its ReduceMail Pro Attach product. ReduceMail Pro Attach helps reduce excessive email through a centralized attachment consolidation process.

The new feature in ReduceMail Pro Attach compresses all attachments in Lotus Notes resulting in significant disk space savings with no service changes for the end user.

Many of you know that some years back Editor-in-Chief David wrote a pretty well-received book called The Flexible Enterprise, which was all about how businesses can manage and thrive in a changing economy. Over the past week, we’ve gotten a bunch of letters from readers asking about how all the economic fuss we’ve been experiencing will affect their jobs, their businesses, and the world of tech. In this important article, David shares with you some background that can help you understand the situation better. He also provides some coping strategies that will help you make it through this thing and come out solid on the other side.

Read this DominoPower article.

Have you signed up to try the Bluehouse open beta? Do you know it can do all the following?

-Host your online sales or project meeting – anyone can join

-Network with potential clients and business partners outside the firewall

-Upload files and share files with others

-Start a group project

-Create surveys

-Turn feedback into dynamic charts or graphs

homas Rajiv had a user, recently upgraded to Notes 8.02, getting this error every time he tried to send a memo. Uninstalling and re-installing the client would work for a day or two, but the error kept returning. He provides both temporary and permanent solutions on his blog.

On his blog, Adam Gartenberg provides links to signing up for the Chat with the Lab session on Tuesday, October 14. The webcast will feature Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab and Chris Gruber, Product Manager, InfoSphere Mashup Hub.

The Storage Visions Conference will be held the 2 days before the CES conference at the Flamingo Hotel, in Las Vegas, NV.

The conference will feature: Panel sessions with content developers, content distributors, content production/storage hardware/software/service; Opportunities to talk with speakers and senior exhibiting executives,.

The UK Lotus Users Group Conference evaluations and presentations are now posted and available to everyone! For those who attended, and those who couldn’t, all you need do is complete a short survey. You will then receive a link to download the presentation file.

Bob Balfe has two videos showing apps for the banking industry on his site. They show a mix of SWT, Portlet, and Notes components for those planning to combine these components.